Josiah Strong Quotes

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

• Serious
• Civilization
• Cities
• Attraction
• Immigrants
• Peculiar
• Menace

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Shopping

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Where

• Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Water
  • Tree
  • Rain

• I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Cole
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Experiences
  • Where
  • Macho

• I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Technology
  • motivation

• I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Good
  • Career
  • Competition

• A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Great
  • Money

• I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Bad
  • Age

• It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.

  

  Christophe Gans
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Work
  • Balance

• It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • People
  • Movie
  • Game

• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  

  Bruno Heller
  • Life
  • Family
  • Positive

• 'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.

  

  J Balvin
  • Good

• You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Success
  • Responsibility
  • Risk

• You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Work

• I want to have my own line and collection.

  

  Christian Siriano

• There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Serious
  • Civilization
  • Cities